Dead Butterflies Quotes

#1. I'm pretty sure I just got groped while buying toothpaste," Ty told him with a frown as he struggled with the tiny buttons of his shirt. "By a tiny little old lady with dead butterflies on her hat.

Abigail Roux

#2. I write scars and dead butterflies.

Gwen Calvo

#3. A million dead butterflies, she said. Sorry as hell they ever landed here.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. She felt justified in hurting him, because he had hurt her...but now all her justifications fell away like dead butterflies...

Lauren Myracle

#5. I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall.

Warren Zevon

#6. Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.

Alexander Pope

#7. If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.

Michel De Montaigne

#8. All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.

Blaise Pascal

#9. We have a responsibility to protect public housing residents from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke, especially the elderly and children who suffer from asthma and other respiratory diseases.

Julian Castro

#10. I'm not going to make a big deal about a few tummy flutters because ... dead people, old people, even furniture would get butterflies if they met this guy.

Anne Eliot

#11. You try getting any sympathy when you tell your best friends how much the self-avowed sadist broke your heart, how much pain she put you through. - Ivan E. Coyote to --------, 2004 (age 35)

David Eso

#12. Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

Glen Duncan

#13. No lies, remember? I'm dead fucking serious here. I am like, head over friggin' heels, butterflies and puppies, hearts and fucking kitty cats in love with you.

C.M. Stunich

#14. The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

Richard J. Daley

#15. Dead. things, dead things ... " I said. "Come no closer. Talking of madness and love, in this reeking place! And that old monster, Magnus, locking them up in his dungeon. How did he love them, his captives? The way boys love butterflies when they rip off their wings!

Anne Rice

#16. Mrs. Bright cut another slice of the rich, dark cake. It was Mindy's fourth, counting dessert at home. But Mrs. Bright's layer cakes were, Mindy felt sure, the best in the world. Where else did you find the layers of icing almost as thick as the layers of cake?

Jane Louise Curry

#17. I'd learned not to put a question mark where God put a period.

Cupcake Brown

#18. A child needs freedom within limits.

Maria Montessori

#19. To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!

Sophocles

#20. I love being a businessman much more than being a hacker.

Kim Dotcom

#21. I smiled back as he walked away, but all the lovely butterflies in my stomach landed one by one in a cold, dead heap.

Myra McEntire

#22. I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.

Tennessee Ernie Ford

#23. It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

#24. Romance blossomed over a carrier bag full of mackerel. It wasn't exactly how I imagined it would happen; there were no sunsets, or butterflies, or birdsong, just some smelly dead fish and a slimy carrier bag.

Victoria Twead